Congratulations to the Great ORFE Class of 2023! Seen here: their celebratory jump in the fountain after senior thesis turn-in day alongside their formal Sherrerd Hall photo taken during senior thesis presentations.
This year ORFE celebrates 15 graduate students. Thirteen Ph.D students succesfully defended their Ph.D's and 2 MSE students have successfully completed their requirements. Details on their impressive first job placements, advisors and thesis titles can be found on the ORFE Graduate page. …
On May 4th, Professor Robert Vanderbei received the inaugural SEAS Excellence in Mentoring Award.
The honor was given in response to the letters of support from faculty he mentored and the many PhD students who described his “unwavering support” and generosity with ideas, time and guidance.
Professor Jason Klusowski will use his Howard B. Wentz, Jr., Junior Faculty Award, given by the School of Engineering and Applied Science, to fund his research. The aim of his research is to establish a fundamental theoretical understanding of the interplay between statistical accuracy, computational complexity, and interpretability for…
Professor Bartolomeo Stellato has received the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award. The title of his project is "Learning for Real-Time Embedded Optimization". Professor Stellato aims to use data to develop new efficient and robust optimization tools for real-time decision-making, with applications in energy, transportation, and…
Professor Tangpi is the 2023 recipient of the American Mathematical Society's Claytor-Gilmer Fellowship. The Claytor-Gilmer Fellowship was established in 2021 to "further excellence in mathematics research and to help generate wider and sustained participation by Black mathematicians”…
William A. Massey ‘77, Edwin S. Wilsey Professor of the ORFE Department, has been elected to a three-year term, starting in February 2023, as a Member at Large to the American Mathematical Society Council. He was also named an inaugural American Mathematical Society Fellow in 2013.
In the accompanying group photo, Professor Massey,…
ORFE Professor Jason Klusowski has received a National Science Foundation CAREER grant which is the "most prestigious award from the NSF in support of early-career faculty who have potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization". Professor…
The 2022 Franco Strazzabosco Young Investigator Award for Research in Engineering was awarded to Professor Stellato at the Italian Scientists & Scholars in North America Foundation (ISSNAF) Annual Event held at the Embassy of Italy in Washington, DC. Professor Stellato received the award for his “research in computational…
Irina Wang has been named Winner of the 2022 INFORMS Computing Society Student Paper Prize. Irina, an ORFE Ph.D. student, advised by Assistant Professor Bartolomeo Stellato, accepted her prize at this year’s INFORMS Annual Meeting in Indianapolis where she presented her paper “Mean Robust Optimization”.
ORFE graduate students Rajita Chandak, Will Underwood, and Maxine Yu received the SEAS Award for Excellence. This honorific award recognizes advanced graduate students who have performed at the highest level as scholars and researchers.
Rajita, currently advised by Professor Matias Cattaneo, works on establishing…
ORFE Professor Kulkarni, the William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering was honored this summer when his portrait was unveiled at Procter Hall in recognition of his tenure as the Dean of the Graduate School from 2014 - 2017.
During his term in the Graduate School, Prof. Kulkarni instituted many new…
The Conference for African American Researchers in the Mathematical Sciences (CAARMS), which rotates between universities and research institutions across the country, was held last June 30th and July 1st at Princeton University. Over the past 20 years, the Operations Research and Financial Engineering (ORFE) Department has hosted CAARMS 7…
Professor Amir Ali Ahmadi gave a plenary talk at the Colombian Conference on Applied and Industrial Mathematics in Medellin. This event is held every two years and focuses on applications of mathematics to other areas of science and to engineering problems in the public and private sectors. Professor Ahmadi's talk, titled "Learning Dynamical…
This year ORFE celebrates twelve graduate students who successfully defended their Ph.D's. Details on their impressive first job placements, advisors and thesis titles can be found on the ORFE Graduate page.
From left to right. Yaqi Duan, Laura Leal, Zhuoran Yang…
ORFE Professor Boris Hanin organized the first in-person Princeton Machine Learning Summer School, which was held from June 13th through June 17th. The school, supported by an NSF CAREER grant and funding from ORFE, CSML, PACM and SEAS, hosted approximately 60 student participants for an…
The inaugural workshop of the Princeton-First Republic Bank Research & Lifelong Learning Initiative was held June 6-10 on the Princeton campus. This was part of a $7.5m grant over 5 years which funds 3 research projects, postdocs and graduate students each year, as well as 3 workshops at Princeton. It is spearheaded by ORFE Professors…
On Monday, May 23rd The Great ORFE Class of 2022 celebrated Class Day. Twelve students were awarded prizes from eight prize categories. A list of winners and their thesis titles, along with video of select thesis presentations, can be found on the Undergraduate Awards page…
Congratulations to the Great ORFE Class of 2022! Seen here: their celebratory jump in the fountain after senior thesis turn-in day alongside their formal Sherrerd Hall photo taken during senior thesis presentations.
Rajiv Sambharya (pictured here with Acting Dean of the Graduate School, Cole Crittenden) was honored by the Graduate School for excellence in teaching as an Assistant-in-Instruction (AI) for Optimization: Decision-Making in the Age of…